slick as a whistle

adverb phrase

Very adroitly; cleverly: She played that horn slick as a whistle(1830+)

slice and dice

verb phrase

To reduce to smaller pieces, inferentially by cutting up: Congress is the single most unpopular American institution other than the income tax; slicing and dicing its committees will bring the GOP only high praise/ Derivatives allow people to transfer risk, to slice and dice it into little pieces and pass it on/ The Court decided that this broad requirement could be sliced and diced

[1970s+; fr the preparation of cooking ingredients by slicing and dicing them]

The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.Cite This Source

Encyclopedia Article for slicker

slick

glassy patch or streak on a relatively undisturbed ocean or lake surface, formed where surface tension is reduced by a monomolecular layer of organic matter produced by plankton or by man; closer to shore most of the material is man-made hydrocarbon pollutant. Slicks are patchy when the wind velocity is less than about 13 kilometres per hour (7 knots). Winds with higher velocities break slicks into narrow, closely spaced windrows aligned parallel to the wind direction. Elongate parallel slicks may also form over and migrate with the trailing slopes of internal waves